Comments on: Nerd Watching: Horrible Monsters and the Mothers Who Love Them

By: Janna

Janna — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:56:03 +0000

I play Destiny, a tiefling paladin of the Raven Queen. She has mommy issues. For one thing, she blamed her mother for getting herself killed at the hands of devils, thus dooming my character to the life of an impoverished orphan. Then, when she found out that her mother actually sacrificed herself to save Destiny, she felt really guilty about hating her mom all those years. Such is life.

I didn’t catch D&D from my mom, but I’m definitely passing it on to my kids! :)

By: Steve V

Steve V — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:02:46 +0000

The character I am playing right now, a half-elf cleric of Avandra, didn’t know his birth mother or his real father. But he was adopted by a priest of Avandra who cared for him for many years. He doesn’t have any particular person he considers his mother, though his “Aunt” is the closest he has since it was she that brought him up until he was old enough to go traveling with his “father” and learn the ways of Avandra. He has created a very large extended family for himself over the years and it is fun to play this out, especially since there is basically at least 1 person in every town that he considers a family member of some type, or at the very least, a close friend.

On a side note, my mother was dismayed when I started playing this game all those years ago, back in ’80. She’s fine with it now, though she still does not understand it nor has any interest in understanding it. Back when I started getting into d&d was when all the bad publicity about the game was going on. Once she realized it wasn’t as bad as people were making it out to be, that I wasn’t becoming a satanist, or going to kill myself if my favorite character died, or get into drugs, she fine with it. Though she did have to regulate how much time I spent playing/working on the game. My school work did suffer at first and that was definitely a reasonable response, though I didn’t think so at the time.

By: MageMirin

MageMirin — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:12:09 +0000

I still have all the Judges Guild “books” and stuff, including 1st ed character sheets and miniatures… as well as dice, that I inherited from my mom. I’ve got boxes upon boxes of papers of stories that she wrote between games and all kinds of stuff… I really miss her.